Storming the Palisades: NZ War, 1845-47

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Thomas Redmayne (UK/NZ/US working 1860s/70s), New Zealand War, 1845-47, Men of the 96th Foot Storming the Palisades of a Maori Pah', ink and watercolour heightened with white, monogrammed lower right, entitled to the mount. 16 cm x 22 cm. Redmayne arrived in Otago from England in 1857. In 1859 he became a member of the Dunedin Town Board. Marrying Elizabeth Fazakerly in 1862 they had eight children before her death in 1872. As noted caricaturists he and his brother Robert established the short-lived Otago Punch magazine in 1865. Redmayne departed for California in 1874 and died in 1886. He is represented in the Hocken Library and Otago Museum. Cordy's previously sold this work in 2006. Provenance: Dr W.F.McConnell, Auckland, Private Estate Collection.

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